Glitter is the herpes of the Crafting World. STI anyone?

Through Emerald Coloured Glasses

I’ll admit it – until now I’ve been a plain drinker. Lots of tea, a great deal of water, but not a lot in the fancy or indulgent categories, and generally I don’t have much call for glasses – I have loads of mason jars and had laser eye surgery six months ago. That being said, a friend introduced me to the joys of fancy drinks, and I’m a convert. I’ve been enjoying them with increasing regularity: bits of fresh fruit, frozen grapes or berries, club soda or tonic water, sprigs of mint, infused simple syrups, shrubs. Fancy drinks have become a sustaining pleasure, but they aren’t very well suited to a mason jar lifestyle – too much volume for so much fancy! Enter my emerald coloured glasses.

I bought a flat of San Pellegrino to enjoy in the aforementioned fancy drinks, and thought that with all of the same-sized bottles I had a good opportunity to make some glasses.

I had seen a few tutorials on making glasses and vases out of bottles, and I built a jig to hold my scoring tool and rotate the bottles. To be honest, it didn’t work out too well for me – it cut the bottles just fine, but it was tedious, pouring the hot water was dangerous, and there was too much of a jagged edge on top when it was all finished. I should have ditched the project entirely, but I had a cupboard full of emerald coloured glasses in mind and I just couldn’t let it go. I started looking for alternatives and found the Kinkajou bottle-cutting system. It went on sale on Amazon the next day – kismet! Turns out they were selling off the previous model. It’s still great, but the adjustable rubber dams would have sped up the process – as it is I distributed the project into a few sessions. Overall I’ve got about twenty tiny glasses, and four vases.

I’m happy to report that it worked, and I’ve got enough little emerald coloured glasses for everyone to enjoy a fancy drink at once. that being said, I’ve also got a fancy bottle cutting system gathering dust, so if you’ve got a project in mind – let me know!!